Seminar: 'Transnational encounters between Irish, Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities, 1850s to 1900s: the beginnings of a project' by Moore Institute Visiting Fellow, Professor Catherine Manathunga
2017-05-30 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research Building
Professor Catherine Manathunga, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Fellow
Irish universities such as Trinity College Dublin, the three Queen’s Colleges of Cork, Galway and Belfast and the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin served as key models for the development of early Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities. They also contributed many academics to antipodean universities and featured prominently in the transnational flows of people and academic ideas that have always characterised university life around the globe. This seminar outlines the beginnings of a research project on transnational links between Irish and Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand universities, focusing on the period from the 1850s to the 1900s. While existing research has been completed on connections between universities in the ‘British world’ (eg. Pietsch, 2013) with a focus on Protestant Anglo-Irish history, less attention has been paid to the history of the role of Irish universities and Irish academics in antipodean universities. This project addresses this gap and draws upon theories about transnationalism and the role of universities and academics as non-state actors contributing to global flows of people, ideas and knowledge.

Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an ‘Age of Globalization’: The Euro-American World, 1815-1914
2017-06-02 10:00 - 2017-06-03 17:00 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
The purpose of this two day international conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas, whether based on either free or unfree labour, between 1815 and 1914. In this period, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended national boundaries, profoundly affecting rural societies by transforming patterns of demand for agricultural commodities. In response to these global processes, ‘progressive’ landowners, serfowners and slaveholders throughout the Euro-American world endeavoured to rationalize their management of land and labour while embracing scientific farming techniques and technological innovations. The resulting drives for ‘improvement’ and better market integration typically exacerbated the fundamental economic, political and social inequalities that prevailed in most agrarian regions. In all those regions, the proprietors’ efforts were often resisted by the diverse range of unfree and free labourers who produced agricultural commodities for sale on the world market, including slaves, serfs, sharecroppers, tenants and peasant proprietors. Focusing on the above issues, this conference features scholars of rural Europe and the Americas who will discuss the possibilities for comparative and transnational research within and between the different agrarian regions of the Euro-American world.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University), author of the award-winning Empire of Cotton: A New Global History of Capitalism (2014). This lecture will be held in the Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway at 8pm on Friday 2 June, and is open to the public.
To register or for further information contact Joe Regan and Cathal Smith at agrarianworldconference@gmail.com
Programme
DAY 1, Friday 2 June
10.00-10.35 Registration
10.35-11.00 Opening Remarks
11.00-12.30 Panel 1: Views of and from ‘Below’: Peasants, Farmers and Slaves
Chair: Nicholas Canny
What is a Peasant Movement For? The Struggle for Rural Representation in Eastern Europe before 1914
Daniel Brett (Open University)
Agrarian Resistance to Modernization and Nation-Building in the Confederate South and Southern Italy: East Tennessee Unionist Farmers vs. Northern Terra di Lavoro’s ‘Legitimist’ Peasants in 1861
Enrico Dal Lago (National University of Ireland, Galway)
“The General Strike”
James Oakes (City University of New York)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 2: Agriculture, Radicalism and Politics
Chair: Caitriona Clear
‘Progress’ and ‘Civilisation’: The Idea of Land and the Tensions of Modernity in the Transatlantic Discourse of the Irish Land League, 1879-86
Andrew Phemister (University of Edinburgh)
Michael Davitt’s Second Tour of the Scottish Highlands and Land Reform in Scotland and Ireland
Brian Casey (Independent Scholar)
Manoeuvring Between Nation and Empire: Agrarian Protest and Political Mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1917
Sami Suodenjoki (University of Helsinki)
3.00-3.30 Coffee Break
3.30-5.00 Panel 3: Farmers Confronting Modernization
Chair: Aidan Kane
Small Farmers Facing the Challenge of Expanding Slave-Based Sugar Plantations: Campinas-
Brazil, Nineteenth-Century
Laura Fraccaro (University of Campinas)
Negotiating Need and Reform in a Transatlantic World: Nineteenth-Century Farmers and
Agricultural Scientists in Maine and Westphalia
Justus Hillebrand (University of Maine)
Rural Labourers and the ‘Ranch War’ in County Cork: From Canada to Castlelyons
John O’Donovan (University College Cork)
6.00 Conference Dinner
8.00 Keynote Lecture, Mechanics Institute, Middle Street, Galway
The Transformation of the Global Countryside: The Nineteenth Century
Sven Beckert (Harvard University)
DAY 2, Saturday 3 June
10.00-11.30 Panel 4: Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Reform in Regional and National Perspective
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago
The Agrarian Thought of William Sharman Crawford
Peter Gray (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Agricultural Education in Hungary: A Response to the Challenges of the ‘Age of Globalization’
Zsuzanna Kiss (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Knowledge Production and Institution Building: The Agrarian Response to the First Wave of Globalisation
Peter Moser (Archives of Rural History, Bern)
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-1.00 Panel 5: Debates on Landownership and Use in a Globalizing World
Chair: Conor McNamara
Rural Co-operation and a Transnational Solution to the Problem of Rural Life, 1889-1932
Patrick Doyle (University of Manchester)
Land Privatization and Export-Led Modernization in Chiapas, Mexico: Reform, Resistance and Revolution, 1876-1911
Sarah Washbrook (University College London)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Panel 6: The Euro-American Agrarian World and Beyond: Global Connections
Chair: Kevin O’Sullivan
From European Roots to Australian Wine: A Study of Foreign Influences on the British Wine Industry in Australia
Chelsea Davis (The George Washington University)
Inventing Colonial Agronomy: The Buitenzorg Laboratories and the Transition from the Western Plantation Model to the Eastern Model of Scientific Cash Crop Improvement, 1880s-1914
Florian Wagner (University of Erfurt)
3.15-3.30 Coffee Break
3.30-4.00 Closing Remarks
The conference organisers would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Moore Institute, the Discipline of History, and the Research Office, all at NUI Galway, as well as the British Agricultural History Society.
For queries please contact Dr. Joe Regan and Dr. Cathal Smith at
agrarianworldconference@gmail.com

Discovery Across Boundaries: New Approaches to Tomorrow's Challenges
2017-06-06 17:30 - 19:30 | Room IT125, IT Building, NUI Galway, Ireland

Prof. Federico Luisetti- Master Class on 'Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Cosmic Crisis'
2017-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Pier Paolo Pasolini has theorized the irrational, oneiric, elementary, and barbaric elements of audiovisual communication. I will connect Pasolini’s reflection on cinema with his posthumous novel Petrolio, and show how Petrolio’s “demoniac technique” addresses contemporary capitalism’s “cosmic crisis”.

Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books and essays on philosophy, literature, visual studies, the Avant-gardes, and political thought. He is currently writing a monograph on the states of nature of the Anthropocene.
http://romancestudies.unc.edu/faculty/federico-luisetti/

Sport & Exercise Monthly Seminar: "Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era" with Dr. Marcus Free
2017-06-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Sport & Exercise Research Group
Monthly Research Seminar, Wednesday June 7, 1pm, Moore Institute

‘From there to here’: Narratives of Transition, Migration and National Identity in Irish Media Representations of Rugby Union in the Professional Era
Dr. Marcus Free (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)

Irish media representation of rugby union in the post-1995 professional era has become a vehicle for the rehearsal of fantasies and anxieties concerning national identity in the context of the Republic of Ireland as a neoliberal state. Irish rugby’s reorganisation and competitive successes have facilitated comforting images and discourses of centralised management, national cohesion and continuity while successive Irish governments’ neoliberal policies have focused on deregulation, facilitating foreign direct investment and reduced social services spending. Representations of advancements in rugby management and coaching intersected with pervasive managerialist discourses in Irish media and politics during and following the 2008 collapse of the Celtic Tiger boom, but with a heavy stress on serving the ‘national interest’. Relatedly, the targeted import of foreign players and coaches is often depicted as reflective of Irish rugby management’s successful negotiation of the neoliberal environment of contemporary European and world rugby. However, the paper focuses on how recent concerns regarding the potential hindrance of ‘native’ player/coach development and the threat of economically driven out-migration evince anxieties concerning Irish rugby’s fragile economy and cultural identity that interconnect with broader concerns regarding Ireland’s enduring economic vulnerability following the 2008 crisis.

Marcus Free is a lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He has taught previously at the Universities of Sunderland and Wolverhampton. His current research interests are in the fields of sport as lived culture, the cultural politics of the representation of sport in film and popular media, the psychodynamics of fans’ emotional and cultural investment in sport and sport media, and memories of media and cultural consumption in the construction of autobiographical narrative. He is co-author (with John Hughson and David Inglis) of The Uses of Sport: a Critical Study (Routledge, 2005), and has published many international journal articles and chapters in scholarly collections on constructions of gender, race and national identity in sport, sport fandom and sport media. He also published research on Irish migration, gender and national identity in contemporary film and television drama.

'Teaching Austerity' A talk by William (Bill) Taylor
2017-06-07 13:30 - 14:30 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Teaching austerity by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor

Austerity is commonly associated with periods of restraint in government spending and the managed conservation of public resources during economic crises. Government measures geared for austerity are typically contrast by policies seeking to stimulate economies, increase consumption and gross domestic product. Such was the aim of the Australian Government’s response to the GFC and its ‘Building the Education Revolution’ (BER) program. This was an initiative that sought to stimulate the nation’s construction industry (a key indicator of economic prosperity) by massive investment in new school infrastructure. This was capital spending that was also promised to ‘transform’ Australia’s education sector, making it ‘better’ somehow and improve the lives (and competitiveness) of Australian pupils now and well into the future. Cranking up the rhetoric on both sides of the austerity debate, among those both for and against government interference in the economy and in what Margaret Thatcher famously wrote off as ‘society’ is a longstanding reactionary and moralising tendency that relates restraint to simpler times, to ‘setting one’s house in order’ or to ‘living within one’s means’. Many of us can remember hearing those lessons at home, church and school. Austerity thus raises fundamental questions about the past and historical memory. It is about who ‘we’ are or once were as a people and society, about core beliefs and values.
As well as a brief foray into theory relating to the architecture of ‘enterprise culture’ (Mary Douglas), the seminar introduces a historical perspective, recognising that ‘building austerity’ has appeared in multiple guises. Historically, ‘austere’ practices are seen during times of conflict brought on by a range of crises, including periods of spiritual, demographic and geo-political turmoil (notably war). This seminar outlines a parallel and at times intersecting history of practices and built environs designed for cultivating, representing and governing parsimony of various kinds. The Quaker meeting house, Ireland’s famine-era workhouses and the settings for ‘literary education’ (Ian Hunter) in Victorian era day schools are among a number of examples and opportunities to examine the architecture of public morality, pedagogy and power.
William M. Taylor is Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia where he teaches architectural design and history and theory of the built environment. Research interests include architecture, social and political theory. A list of his publications can be found here: http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/person/Bill.Taylor

NUI Galway Study Day: "Medicine and Mystery -The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction" - A Victorian Popular Fiction Association
2017-06-08 08:45 - 19:00 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
Organisers: Dr.s Anna Gasperini and Paul Raphael Rooney
Keynote speakers: Ms Sarah Wise, Author – Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind; Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway – The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway (this keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre)
Background
The internationally recognised Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) and the National University of Ireland, Galway are the hosts of this interdisciplinary study day devoted to exploring representations of medicine and mystery in the Victorian era. The nineteenth century saw unprecedented developments in medical science, which caused simultaneously wonder and anxiety in the wider public. Victorian popular authors such as Wilkie Collins, Florence Marryat, Charles Dickens, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon enthusiastically explored the themes of medicine and surgical innovation in their work, exploiting their sensational potential. At the same time, the hopes and controversies generated by advancements in the medical field were often the subject of public debate via newspapers, magazines, and cartoons. Covering a wide range of topics going from class and gender, to ethics, to space, to mental health, and fin-de-siécle literature, this Study Day aims to involve academics to a variety of disciplines in the exploration and discussion of the fascinating intermingle between literature and science in the Victorian era.

During the Study Day, it will be possible to visit the exhibition Medicine and Mystery in C19th Galway”, Curated by Anna Gasperini and Paul Rooney.
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vpfa-study-day-medicine-mystery-the-dark-side-of-science-in-victorian-fiction-tickets-34605683531
For those who may wish to attend the conference dinner at Mona Lisa Restaurant, Galway, please contact us at medicineandmystery19@gmail.com

08:45 – 9:15 Registration and Opening Remarks
09: 15 Keynote 1 – Ms Sarah Wise, Author – room G010
‘Mr Gilbert’s weird psychological novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind
Chair: Anna Gasperini, NUI Galway
10:15 Tea break
10:40 PARALLEL SESSION 1
Gender and Class – room G010
Panel Chair: Eavan O’Dochartaigh, NUI Galway
Sara Zadrozny, University of Portsmouth – Medicine and Victorian notions of gender
Abby Boucher, Aston University, Birmingham – Fashionable Illness: Consumerism, Medicine, and Class in the Silver Fork Novels
Ruth Doherty, Trinity College Dublin – ‘But you and I may say the truth’: reproduction and infection in late nineteenth-century fiction
Spaces and Bodies – room G011
Panel Chair: Paul Rooney, NUI Galway
Louise Benson James, University of Bristol – Sick Rooms, Death-Beds, and Operating Theatres: Gothic Medical Spaces in the Fiction of Lucas Malet (1852-1931)
Neil MacFarlane, Independent Scholar – ‘Full of fire and animation’: sthenic corpulence in Dickens’s fiction
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 Keynote 2 – Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway
The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway
The keynote will be in NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Chair: Anna Gasperini, NUI Galway
14:50 PARALLEL SESSION 2
Medicine and Ethics – room G010
Panel chair: Ciaran McDonough, NUI Galway
Jennifer Jones, University of Portsmouth – ‘“[M]erely a question of being the first time”’: Scientific Overreach and Middle-Class Masculinity
Debbie Harrison, Independent Scholar – Body of evidence: Forensic science, psychology and the doctor-detective in “The Moonstone” and “Middlemarch”
Christopher Pittard, University of Portsmouth – Loveday Brooke, Experimental Physiology, and the Crimes of Animality
Fin-de-siècle – room G011
Panel Chair: Muireann O’Cinneide, NUI Galway
James Machin, Birkbeck University of London – “A slight lesion in the grey matter, that is all”: fin-de-siécle medical practice in Arthur Machen’s weird fiction
Caitlin R. Duffy, Stony Brook University – Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula
Mathilde Giret, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux 3) – Signs of the Plague in Dracula: a literary and medical investigation
16:20 Tea break
16:40 PARALLEL SESSION 3
Mental Health – room G010
Panel Chair: Ruth Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Emily Turner, University of Sussex – New Moon journalism and patient powered publications
Marjolein Platjiee, University of Amsterdam – Was it really “in his nature to do it”? Re-examining the doctor’s Explanation of Little Father Time’s suicide in “Jude the Obscure”.
Charlotte Whittingham, Imperial College – The Angel in the Asylum
18:00 Closing remarks
19:00 Conference dinner at Mona Lisa Restaurant in Galway*

Prof. Federico Luisetti- Public Lecture on Biopower / Geopower
2017-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge Room 1001 First Floor Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland
Current perspectives on the Anthropocene are reformulating Michel Foucault’s biopolitical paradigm, introducing a discourse on geopower and animistic states of nature that account for the political agency of unfamiliar webs of life and nonlife.​

Federico Luisetti is an Italian philosopher and professor of Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books and essays on philosophy, literature, visual studies, the Avant-gardes, and political thought. He is currently writing a monograph on the states of nature of the Anthropocene.
http://romancestudies.unc.edu/faculty/federico-luisetti/

Informationism and the Gig Economy: Labour's Digital Policy Fight for the 21st Century - A talk by Brian Dolber
2017-06-13 18:30 - 20:00 | City Library, Galway, Ireland
Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is a historian of media and the labour movement in the United States, and studies communications policymaking in the neoliberal, digital age. Dr. Dolber has been a longtime labour activist and served as staff for three different unions in the U.S. He is the author of Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and holds his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

'Researching Disasters' A talk by William M (Bill) Taylor
2017-06-14 16:00 - 17:30 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
The Moore Institute in association with The School of Education are pleased to host a seminar on Researching Disasters by Professor William M (Bill) Taylor

Histories, representations and ethics of catastrophe
This seminar draws on my research over a number of years, on different projects and building histories that all seem to involve disasters of one kind or another: broken bridges, collapsed buildings and drowned cities. My research methods have varied, including approaches borrowed from the philosophy of science, from architectural history and design theory, and from the broad church of disaster studies. The research ethos has been multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary as prevailing fashion across the humanities can describe it, although experience suggests these terms are not what they’re cracked up to be. Discussion of research methods in the academy typically begins by assuming the ‘right’ correspondence of project aims and outcomes so that working between or across academic disciplines is more than likely to throw a spanner in the works, to send a project haywire or make one’s compass go awry. (These are all metaphors and outcomes from the illuminating history of technological failure.)
So, how do we research things that go ‘wrong’? How do we study disaster and why? Homer-Dixon sees hope in the “upside of down” (2006), that studying catastrophe can teach us how we can “reinvigorate the economic, political, and social systems that sustain us.” There may be more than optimism behind his theory. With its emphasis on “innovation” as the linchpin between human suffering and social renewal there could be collusion with prevailing neoliberal thinking. Nonetheless, researching disasters—and teaching about them may bear consideration. Educators and educationalists in particular may find an opportunity to “reinvigorate” forms of pastoral care and character-building hitherto relegated to the dustbin of Victorian era school history, so that studying disaster can be a preventative to hubris and cultivator of personally-transformative and progressive values.
William M. Taylor is Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia where he teaches architectural design and history and theory of the built environment. Research interests include architecture, social and political theory. A list of his publications can be found here: http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/person/Bill.Taylor

Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow
2017-06-14 20:00 - 2017-06-19 20:00 | Various Locations, Ireland
Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow
This summer will see a series of free public history events around the County organised by NUI Galway, GMIT, local history societies and Galway County Council as part of its Decade of Commemoration strategy (2013-23). Galway Centenary Conversations: War & Revolution Roadshow will take place in Tuam, Craughwell, Clifden, Portumna, Skehana and Athenry throughout June and July. Each event is free and all are welcome.
The talks will feature an array of local and national historians discussing key events, personalities and developments during the independence struggle in Galway. Topics to be examined include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis; the 1918 General Election; the War of Independence; Cumann na mBan and the Galway Volunteers.
Family history and memorabilia
The series is also a chance for the public to offer their family reminiscences of the period and discuss the involvement of local communities and families. National experts will be available to offer advice or support to budding researchers and encourage people to bring along material from their own family’s involvement or any relevant letters, memorabilia.
Tuam Library
The series kicks off in Tuam Library on Wednesday 14 June where the Old Tuam Society will host an event focusing on the 1918 General Election in North Galway. The event begins at 8 pm and features Dr Conor McNamara and Dr Martin O’Donoghue of NUI Galway.
Where and When:

Wednesday 14 June 8pm Tuam Library

Tuesday 20 June 8pm Craughwell Hall

Wednesday 28 June 8pm Clifden Station House Theatre

Wednesday 5 July 8pm Portumna Workhouse Centre

Wednesday 12 July 8pm Screene’s Lounge, Skehana

Wednesday 19 July 8pm Athenry Community Centre

Further details: Contact Conor McNamara, NUI Galway: conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

Election Special - Discussion on the UK election, Northern Ireland, France, and more!
2017-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar Room GO10, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Election Special!
The Moore Institute will host a snap event to discuss the UK election, Northern Ireland, France, and more!
With contributions from Jane Conroy, Eoin Daly, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, and others.
Thursday, June 15th at 12 noon
Moore Institute seminar room (G010) Hardiman Research Building

All welcome!

John Ford biographer Joseph McBride to talk at Huston School of Film & Digital Media
2017-06-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, Ireland
Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUI Galway) are delighted to welcome Joseph McBride, author of the award-winning biography Searching for John Ford (2001) for a public lecture at the school entitled “John Ford, Irish-American Poet and Comedian”. McBride’s talk will take place on Thursday June 15th at 7pm, is free and open to all.
“If there is any single thing that explains either of us,” John Ford once said to Eugene OʼNeill, “itʼs that weʼre Irish.” Their worlds intersected in 1940, when Ford directed his film version of OʼNeillʼs tetralogy of one-act sea plays, The Long Voyage Home. John Ford, aka John Feeney (1894-1973), the American-born son of Irish immigrants, was a man of many varied and often conflicting moods, themes, and obsessions. Although Ford usually is identified with the Western genre, in which he made such masterpieces as Stagecoach and The Searchers, his vast body of work encompasses a wide range of subject matter. Perhaps closest to his heart were his films about his beloved Ireland.
For McBride, “Ford’s humor is one of his strongest and most characteristic attributes. Being both a “poet” and a “comedian” is essential to Ford’s tragicomic (and very Irish) view of the world and to the anarchic, subversive streak that coexists with his lifelong reverence for tradition.”
Further information: Dr. Tony Tracy – tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie
Joseph McBride is the author of Searching for John Ford, hailed by both the Irish Times and the New York Times as the “definitive” biography of the director. A veteran writer for Variety, McBride has also written highly acclaimed biographies of Steven Spielberg and Frank Capra. McBride’s interview with John Ford appears in his most recent book Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies.

Migration and the Humanities: Critical Challenges
2017-06-16 15:00 - 2017-06-17 17:30 | Seminar Room G010
Migration and the Humanities: Critical Challenges 16-17 June 2017
Moore Institute NUIG/ Irish Humanities Alliance
Migration – and its social, cultural, political, and economic consequences – represents one of the most significant issues facing Europe today. This conference will draw together scholars from humanities disciplines such as art history; geography; history; literature; modern languages; politics; and cultural studies to offer cross-over perspectives on migration. Participants will explore the centrality of the humanities in widening our understanding of the phenomenon of migration and its challenges, engaging with the work of social scientists and activists.
The overarching aim of the conference is to focus on the human experience of migration, humanitarian concerns and migration narratives centred on the human condition. Speakers will offer insights into historical parallels with the current crisis; systems for managing displaced peoples; the social, economic & cultural contribution of migrants; the gender implications of migration; labour and migrancy; Ireland & migration; processes of ‘othering’ and ghettoisation; discourses of race and ethnic difference; and the challenge of language acquisition for migrants.
For further details contact Prof. Daniel Carey, NUI Galway (daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie), and Dr. Mel Farrell, Irish Humanities Alliance (m.farrell@ria.ie), and visit www.irishhumanities.com
Friday, June 16th
3.00 Welcome (coffee and tea available)
Session 1
3.30 Ireland (I) [Experience of migrants in Ireland]
Mary Gilmartin (Maynooth)
T.J. Hughes (NUI Galway)
Valerie Ledwith (NUI Galway)
Piaras Mac Éinrí (UCC)
Anne O’Connor and Andrea Ciribuco (NUI Galway)
5.30 Reception
Conference dinner
Pearla na Mara

Saturday, June 17th
Session 2
9.30 Ireland (II) [Experience of Irish migrants]

Margaret Brehony (NUI Galway)
Sara Goek (Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy)
Brian Hughes (Maynooth)
Niamh Kirk (DCU)
11.00 coffee break
Session 3
11.30 Migration and the Arts
Patrick Crowley (UCC)
Aileen Dillane (Limerick)
Debbie Lisle (QUB)
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)
Vukasin Nedeljkovic (DIT)
Tina O’Toole (Limerick)
1pm lunch
Session 4
2pm Gender/Politics/Race
Ronit Lentin (TCD)
John Morrissey (NUI Galway)
Anne Mulhall (UCD)
Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway)
Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth)
3.30 coffee break
Session 5
4.00 Conclusion
Allen White (UCC)
and open discussion

Introduction to Modelling Decision Making With Dr KongFatt Wong-Lin
2017-06-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Computer Lab, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology)
Introduction to Modelling Decision Making – Monday 19th of June, 2-5pm Computer Lab, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology)
The development of clearly defined models of human behaviour enables us to translate theoretical concepts into precise hypotheses for experimental work. This workshop is an introduction to the practice of cognitive modelling focusing on decision making. How do we go from theoretical statements to a model and how do we test models? With Dr KongFatt Wong-Lin, we will explore these questions and get to work with established models in a supportive environment.

Dr. KongFatt Wong-Lin is a Senior Lecturer at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Ulster University. His research area is in the highly interdisciplinary Computational Neuroscience, including the computational modelling of decision making.

A joint talk with Dr Vicky Angelaki & Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos
2017-06-20 13:00 - 14:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Irish-Austrian Exchanges on the Stage: Performing the Archive with Dr. Vicky Angelaki
What does it mean to perform the archive? The lived historiography of theatre captures the embodied experience rather than logging decorporealised data. The archive is performed in two ways: first synchronically, as lived history is created through our staging and spectatorial choices and then diachronically, as we collect the traces of this presence and self-performance. The choices that we make in theatrical ‘adoption’, adaptation, appropriation, consumption and ultimately intercultural exchange stand to reveal as much about our personal and collective self- and nationhood as any given country’s own cultural production. Theatrical production is at its most riveting when the lines between ‘us’ and ‘them’ or the prototypical – and problematic – binary of ‘I’ and ‘Other’ become troubled, and blurred.
In this paper I will concentrate on Austro-Irish theatre exchanges, particularly focusing on archives/performance histories of the two capitals, Dublin and Vienna. The paper will ask questions such as: to what extent do the similarities of the two countries (socio-politically; culturally; artistically) broker a fruitful process of exchange? Is this exchange equitable? What do the absences in the archive stand to reveal – equally loudly as the presences – about national performances?
The paper will begin with an overview of key facts and moments in the two countries’ cultural exchanges before concentrating on the seminal contemporary example of Elfriede Jelinek’s (Nobel Prize, 2004) adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Ernst ist das Leben, 2005) and An Ideal Husband (Der ideale Mann, 2011).
Dr Vicky Angelaki is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Reading, UK. Her latest monograph, Social and Political Theatre in 21st Century Britain: Staging Crisis (Bloomsbury) was published in 2017. Her research specialisms include modern and contemporary British and European theatre, the crossovers between theatre and science, translation, adaptation, spectatorship and citizenship, as well as performance, critical/cultural theories, philosophy and sociology. She has published extensively in these areas, major publications including The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and the special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review titled ‘Dealing with Martin Crimp’ (24.3). She is currently writing Theatre & Environment for Palgrave Macmillan and co-editing The Cambridge Companion to British Playwriting since 1945 (with Prof. Dan Rebellato). Angelaki also co-edits the new series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, launching 2017).

Cia Ludens in Performance: From Memory to Documentary with Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos
Theatrical translation can be regarded as a meeting, and an approximation, of different cultures on stage, and as analytical exercise in learning about oneself, that is to say, the local culture, through the lenses of the other party – the other (foreign) culture. Theatrical translation is, in itself, a work of playwriting, which requires adjustment of the text, and of extra-textual elements in a performance, to local theatrical practices, as well as fine adjustment of rhythms and sounds, in the cross-cultural encounter on stage.
This paper aims to present a capsule description of the work of Cia Ludens, a theatre company based in São Paulo, Brazil, dedicated to the translation and performance of Irish drama and Irish-related material as a way of bridging gaps of space and culture between Ireland and Brazil. The paper focuses on three productions – Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (Dançando em Lúnassa – 2004); Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire (Balangangueri: o lugar onde ninguém mais ri – 2011-12); and Domingos Nunez’s The Two Deaths of Roger Casement (As duas mortes de Roger Casement – 2016) – and evaluates the company’s intercultural or cross-cultural practice, including approaches that have varied from playing with memory, to fusing original texts and recurring to documentary theatrical style.
Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos is a faculty member of the Postgraduate Programme in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and producer and dramaturge with Cia Ludens, a theatre company based in São Paulo, dedicated to the production of Irish theatre. She has a PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English from the University of São Paulo and serves as an executive member of IASIL, for which she is also the Chair of the Bibliography Committee. Her publications as co-editor and organizer include: Ilha do Desterro – Contemporary Irish Theatre (Florianópolis: EdUFSC, 2010); Coleção Brian Friel (São Paulo: Hedra, 2013); and The Road to God Knows Where, by Alan Gilsenan (Florianópolis: EdUFSC, 2015), volume 3 of Ireland on Film: Screenplays and Critical Contexts. She is currently working on the organization of a collection of Tom Murphy’s plays translated into Portuguese and on volume 4 of the Ireland on Film series – Maeve, by Pat Murphy.

#HERSTORY SALON: An evening of celebration and reflection
2017-06-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Aula Maxima Lower, NUI Galway, Ireland
GALWAY#HERSTORY SALON
An evening of celebration and reflection- Tuesday 20 June 2017, 6–‐8pm NUI Galway –Aula Maxima Lower
Herstory is a new movement dedicated to ensuring the stories of women from the past, present and future will now be heard and never lost again. Since its foundation by Melanie Lynch in 2015, Herstory has been instrumental in helping to highlight forgotten histories of Irish women through performance, exhibitions and salons. This evening of celebration and reflection will feature contributions from the university’s academic and artistic community. Through short presentations and informal discussion, those gathered will explore women in literature, history, society, dance, theatre, and visual art.
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha –A snapshot of four female poets in pre–‐tenth–‐century Ireland
Erin McCarthy –RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–‐1700
Evan Bourke – A case study: Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh
Muireann O’Cinneide – Women Writing War: Ireland 1880–‐1922
Bronagh McShane – The Women’s History Association of Ireland
Carol Ballantine – ‘It’s always her fault’: Stigma and gendered shame
Bernadette Divilly – Ciúnas contemplative dance video and discussion
Sarah O’Toole – What Foremothers? play discussion
Justine Nakase –#WakingtheFeministsWest
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Questions/group discussion
Light refreshments
Art exhibition Erstwhile: works by Dagmar Drabent, Bridget Guest, and Marina Wild (on display throughout the evening)
This is a free event. All are welcome.
Contact: Felicity Maxwell felicity.maxwell@nuigalway.ie / Mary McGill m.mcgill4@nuigalway.ie
www.herstory.ie
@HerstoryIreland
#Herstory
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War & Revolution Road Show: Galway Centenary Conversations
2017-06-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Craughwell Community Hall, Ireland
The Moore Institute, in co-operation with the Galway County Council, presents the second in their six parts series of public history events in Craughwell Community Hall on Tuesday 20 June at 8 pm. This week’s event features three speakers and is free to the public. The panel features: Leona Armstrong (NUIG), ‘The Forgotten Voices of Galway Cumann na mBan’; John Cunningham (NUIG), ‘A rebel from Templemartin’; Tony Varley (NUIG), ‘Tom Kenny and the 1916 Rising’.
For further details contact Conor McNamara, Moore Institute, conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion
2017-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology)
Neural Plausibility of Decision Making Models – Panel Discussion AMB 067, Arts Millennium Building (Psychology) 1-2pm Wednesday the 21st of June
There is little doubt that complex cognition depends on the brain. However, in order for us to model human behaviour, especially the complexities of decision making, we need to make decisions about how to construct such models and whether they should be more influenced by the limitations of the neural system or by reliably observed cognitive and behavioural patterns. Our panel discussion will introduce focus on the “attractor” model of decision making developed by KongFatt Wong-Lin and colleagues, which has been derived from known neural principles. Dr Wong-Lin will introduce his model and the rationale behind his approach. Dr Maria Dauvermann, a cognitive neuroscientist, and Dr Nick Tosh, a philosopher, will discuss the empirical and conceptual implications of Dr Wong-Lin’s model. The discussion will be moderated by Dr Denis O’Hora.

Humanitarian History: Reflections on Somalia
2017-06-22 - 2017-06-23 | Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
This workshop brings together practitioners and academics to reflect on humanitarian action in Somalia since the 1990s. What did and didn’t work in the field? What contextual factors shaped the practice of humanitarian aid? What lessons can we draw from that experience for contemporary policy-making?
The workshop is organised by the School of Humanities, NUI Galway, in collaboration with Trócaire, and is funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme.
Registration for the event is free, but places are limited. To register, and for details of the programme, go to https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/humanitarian-history-reflections-on-somalia-tickets-34726296287

For further details, contact:
Dr Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway) – kevin.k.osullivan@nuigalway.ie
Réiseal Ní Chéilleachair (Trócaire) – reiseal.nicheilleachair@trocaire.org

Dr Ruth Canning on “Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serue”: The Old English and Military Identities in late Elizabethan Ireland
2017-06-27 16:00 - 17:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
Focussing on the martial services and petitions of Patrick Plunkett, Baron of Dunsany, during the Nine Years’ War, this paper will explore how members of Ireland’s Old English Pale community drew on military traditions and personal service as the chief means of articulating political allegiances, grievances, and their rights as crown subjects. It will address the increasing displacement of Old Englishmen from the crown’s military ranks alongside their pleas to be recognised as “the old experienced learned with bloody hands”. It will also highlight their unique status as “Englishmen” living on a distant Tudor frontier and how a constant state of military preparedness shaped individual and collective mentalities. By doing so, this paper aims to explore how an emerging Old English identity was shaped and defined by its military traditions and its martial men.
Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Dr Ruth A. Canning is a Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University. Prior to this, she held a Marie Curie International Research Fellowship with School of History, University College Cork, and the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. A historian of early modern Ireland with a special focus on Ireland’s Nine Years’ War (1594-1603), Ruth’s forthcoming monograph, The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), examines the socio-political impact of war on identity formation amongst Ireland’s minority Old English population.

"Remembering Margaret Heavey" a 'Path Breaking Women' Event
2017-06-28 11:00 - 13:30 | Seminar Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
As part of the Path Breaking Women Exhibition, you are warmly invited to “Remembering Margaret Heavey”.
With keynote presentation by Dr Pádraic Moran, lecturer in Classics NUI Galway, followed by a roundtable discussion on the many contributions of Margaret Heavey as a classics scholar, educationalist and long-time member of the NUI Galway community.
All welcome!

Galway Centenary Conversations -a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council
2017-06-28 20:00 | Station House Theatre, Clifden
Galway Centenary Conversations – a series of free public history events organised by the Moore Institute in conjunction with the Galway County Council takes places in the Station House Theatre, Clifden on Wednesday 28 June, at 8pm. Topics to be examined this week include the aftermath of the 1916 Rebellion; the conscription crisis of 1918 and the 1918 General Election. Speakers include Dr Conor McNamara (Moore Institute); Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill (author) and Micheal Micheal O Fatharthaigh (DBS). Contact Dr Conor McNamara for further details: conor.mcnamara@nuigalway.ie

The Power of Listening Workshop
2017-07-05 10:00 - 13:00 | The Bridge, Room 1001, First Floor, Hardiman Research Building
All Welcome!

War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations
2017-07-19 20:00 - 21:30 | Clarin College, Athenry, Ireland
The final event in the War & Revolution: Galway Centenary Conversations, public history lecture series takes place in Clarin College, Athenry on Wednesday 19 July at 8 pm. Conor McNamara and Martin O’Donoghue of the Moore Institute will be among a panel of speakers discussing the geography of revolution in County Galway, 1917-21.
Event is free and all are welcome.

"Women in History, Politics and Culture" The Path Breaking Women Event
2017-07-21 11:00 - 15:30 | Seminar Room GO11, Ground Floor, Hardiman Research Building
A mini-conference accompanying the exhibition
Path Breaking Women of NUI Galway: 1912-1922 and Beyond
All welcome, places limited. To RSVP and for more information contact: lydia.kelly@nuigalway.ie

Programme
11.00am: Registration – Tea & Coffee
11.30am: Chair – Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley
Speaker: Dr. Nadia Claire Smith, ‘Mary Donovan O’Sullivan and Síle Ni Cinnéide: Path-breaking women historians’
12.30-1.00pm: Lunch break
1.00-1.15pm: Dr. Louis de Paor, ‘Remembering Caitlin Maude’
1.15–1.45pm: Performance – ‘The poetry of Caitlin Maude’ read by Caitríona Ní Chonaola
1.45–2.00pm: Tea & Coffee
2.00–3.00pm: Chair – Prof. Niamh Reilly
Speaker: Dr. Claire McGing, ‘Parliamentary pioneers: the political careers of Celia Lynch and Maureen O’Carroll’
3.00pm: Closing

Speakers and Chairs
Nadia Clare Smith is the author of A ‘Manly Study’? Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949 and Dorothy Macardle: A Life. She received her PhD in history from Boston College, where she has also taught. A specialist in modern Irish history, her work has been recognized by the Fulbright Commission and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Sarah-Anne Buckley, is lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland Galway specialising in the history of childhood and youth; and women and gender in Ireland. Author of The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889-1956 (MUP, 2013), she was recently a co-editor of a special edition of the Journal of Childhood and Youth and Soathar: the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, of which she is an editor. She is President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland, Chair of the Irish History Student’s Association and co-director of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class at NUI Galway.
Louis de Paor is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway. Leabhar na hathghabhála/Poems of repossession, his bilingual anthology of twentieth-century poetry in Irish with English translations, was an Irish Times Book of the Year in 2016 and has been described by the Sunday Herald in Scotland as ‘one of the most important anthologies of its kind this century’.
Caitríona Ní Chonaola is from Camus, Co. Galway. As well as writing plays, songs and ‘agallaimh beirte’, she acts. While teaching Gaeilge at Memorial University Newfoundland, she won the Story Slam competition at St. John’s Storytelling Festival 2014. Her song, Deartháirín Óg mo Chroí won the Pan Celtic Festival in 2003, was sung by Nora Ghriallais at the prestigious Corn Uí Riada competition: Oireachtas na Gaeilge, and can often be heard on RnaG. Her published works include Incubus by Cló Iar Chonnachta and Scéal na Bó by Breacadh. She teaches Gaeilge at Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, NUI Galway and regularly does voice overs on TG4 cartoons. She was born in the same Gaeltacht area, went to the same secondary school, performed in the same theatres and her friends would say that she has the same passion for the Irish Language as Caitlín Maude. Although Ní Chonaola never met Maude in person, she has fond memories of being ‘silenced’ by her parents during a Sean Nós song on the radio by her,’shhh, tá Caitlín Maude ag gabháil fhoinn’.
Claire McGing is based at Maynooth University, where she lectures and researches in the Department of Geography and is also the university’s Athena SWAN project o‑ cer. Her main research interests lie in the history and operation of male-gendered organizational cultures, particularly Irish political parties, and the measures that can be taken to promote gender equality in such environments. Her most recent research focuses on the early history of women in Dáil Éireann. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on gender representation in Irish politics, including co-written chapters in the prestigious ‘How Ireland Voted’ series in 2011 and 2016.
Niamh Reilly is Established Professor of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway
The Path Breaking Women project, led by Niamh Reilly, was supported by Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme 2016. It is co-sponsored by the School of Political Science and Sociology, the Centre for Global Women’s Studies, Gender ARC and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. The Exhibition runs until September 2017 in the library exhibition space at NUI Galway. For
more information see: www.nuigalway.ie/pathbreakingwomen

7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference
2017-08-18 10:00 - 2017-08-19 17:30 | Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building
***Registration for this year’s conference will close on 15 August***
Click here to register
Click here to download the conference programme
The 7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, on 18-19 August 2017.
This year’s programme features plenary addresses by Professor Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University) and Professor Chris Maginn (Fordham University), as well as a special panel session, ‘Visualising Early Modern Ireland’.
Registration costs €20 for speakers/students/unwaged and €30 for fully waged.
The conference dinner will take place on Friday, 18 August at 7pm in Kirby’s Restaurant, Cross Street Lower, Galway. The cost of dinner is €35 (3 courses and a glass of wine/beer).
For information about travelling to Galway click here.
For information about accommodation in Galway click here.

Should you have any questions regarding the 2017 conference, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at 2017@tudorstuartireland.com.
This year’s conference is organised by Evan Bourke (English, NUI Galway), Raina Howe (History, NUI Galway), Ioanna Kyvernitou (English, NUI Galway) and Matt McGinty (History, NUI Galway).

The 7th Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference is generously supported by the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, NUI Galway, the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, the Discipline of English, NUI Galway, the Discipline of History, NUI Galway and Marsh’s Library.

Book Launch - Conor McNamara "The Dublin Lockout, 1913" New Perspectives on Class War & it's Legacy
2017-08-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Galway Mechanics Institute, 6-8 Middle St, Galway, Ireland

Conference – COST Action ‘Citizen's Health through public-private Initiatives: Public health, Market and Ethical perspectives’ (CHIP ME
2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06 | Aula Maxima The Quadrangle NUI Galway, Ireland
COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) Final Conference, September 4-6 2017 (Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway)
COST Action IS1303 (CHIPME) is a high capacity network formed to monitor, and offer guidance for, developments and emerging initiatives in genetic testing, research and healthcare throughout Europe. With members from 26 COST countries, this community of researchers and stakeholders brings together critical expertise in bioethics, ELSI analysis, genetic science, data sharing, information and communication technology, public-private collaborations and patient centred initiatives (PCI). During our final conference, we will be looking back at the work of the Action as well as looking into emerging developments that will be of interest to our field for the future. Our discussions will be dedicated to the reflection on the Action theme, the impact of recent innovations in the field of genomics and emerging challenges with regard to the following themes:

Challenges of the expanded availability of genomic information
Consent, return of results and new genomic technologies
Public health and Private sector involvement
Data-sharing and ICT developments
Participatory and public engagement in genetics, science and research
New ethical, legal and regulatory challenges: the case of gene editing

SPEAKERS
Our speakers include Professor Pascal Borry (KU Leuven), Dr Deborah Mascalzoni (Uppsala University), Ms Isabelle Budin Ljøsne (University of Oslo), Dr Danya Vears (KU Leuven), Dr Michele Loi (University of Zurich), Ms Heidi Beate Bentzen (University of Oslo), Dr Giovanni De Grandis (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Professor Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen) Dr Ana Nordberg (University of Copenhagen), Dr Heidi C. Howard (Uppsala University), Professor Klaus Hoeyer (University of Copenhagen), Professor Mikko Rask (University of Helsinki), Ms Brígida Riso (ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon), Dr Lucia Galvagni (Bruno Kessler Foundation) & Dr Oliver Feeney (NUI Galway/Ghent University) and more to be confirmed.

OVERVIEW

MC meeting [CHIPME only]: Sept 4th @2pm
Main Conference starts: Sept 4th @ 3pm
Main Conference ends: Sept 5th @ 3pm
Workshop on future research [CHIPME only]: Sept 5th @ 3.30pm
CHIPME Work Meetings:

Sept 5th (5.00pm-6.30pm)
Sept 6th (9.30am – 12pm)

WHERE
The main venue will be the Aula Maxima, Quadrangle, NUI Galway.
The main conference is open to the public and all are welcome.
For more information, and to register for free, please go to here and check out our website.
For more information, please contact feeney.oli@gmail.com or heike.felzmann@nuigalway.ie

Book Launch - 'Re-Place - Irish Theatre Environments' by Lisa FitzGerald
2017-09-07 16:00 - 17:30 | O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, Studio 1, NUI Galway, Ireland
BOOK LAUNCH
Please join us at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway for the launch of
‘Re-Place – Irish Theatre Environments’ by Lisa FitzGerald (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017)
The book will be launched by Prof Patrick Lonergan on Thursday 7 September at 16.00 in Studio 1.
All are welcome!

BOOK DESCRIPTION
What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances to be seen as conceptual ecological environments. Broadening the scope of theatre environments to encompass radiophonic and digital spaces, Re-Place is a timely interrogation of how we understand performance history. This book examines the work, both as text and in production, of three canonical Irish playwrights, J. M. Synge, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, and looks at how theatre documentation can further the idea of a natural performance environment. The questions under consideration extend Irish theatre history into the field of the environmental humanities and draw on new materialist discourse to offer exciting and innovative ways to approach performance.

Lisa FitzGerald is an environmental historian and ecocritic whose research interests include the role of nature in theatre and performance, environmental art practice, eco-digital art, urban ecologies and the relationship between nature and technology. She holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway and is a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. Her forthcoming project, Eco-Digital Art: Nature and New Media Aesthetics, examines the ecological implications of artistic representations of the natural world in digital and new media art and the emergence of ‘new natures’ from within the digital sphere.

https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79230?rskey=xUAUj3&result=6
